Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Platonism and the Spiritual Life' and 'The Dappled World'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana]